The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

All of the anger and inchoate rage that has been swelling up in the Democratic Party since losing the White House suddenly ...

“A big part of Rwanda was left outside, in eastern Congo, in southwestern Uganda . . . this is a fact. It is a fact of history. . . . And these people have been denied their rights.” This is a line ...

Several reports accused the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces, of carrying out the attack. The ADF is an armed group ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

With an economy under IMF supervision, public frustration with political elites and a deeply polarised landscape, Ghana ...

The Government of Rwanda has officially severed diplomatic relations with Belgium, citing a long history of interference, ...

The BBC meets residents of Goma following the rebel takeover and those being forced by the M23 to leave camps.

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its post-colonial legacies in the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic ...